Kris Kennaway writes:
 > I've been having trouble getting gdb -k on alpha to give me sensible
 > backtraces.  For example, here is the backtrace of a softupdates panic
 > that I dumped by calling doadump in ddb:

<..>

 > #6  0xfffffc000058fe48 in trap (a0=1, a1=1, a2=18446739675669307791, entry=3,
 >     framep=0xfffffe0006c59818) at 
 > /a/asami/portbuild/alpha/src-client/sys/alpha/alpha/trap.c:382
 > #7  0xfffffc0000580928 in XentIF () at machine/asm.h:62


As I've mentioned before, gdb on alpha looses its marbles when there's
a trap in the stack trace.  An explicit panic without a trap works fine.
Ddb works fine in any circumstance.


 > 
 > Can someone please look into this?

I spent a day or two hacking on gdb last year and never made any
progress.  I wish somebody with more gdb fu would look at it.



Drew

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